Dev-Cpp doesn't understand the data type FILE

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Syntax highlighting only works for stuff like keywords, #define, strings and such. FILE is a typedef (not a keyword). But that does not explain why the code won't compile (or run). Have you included stdio.h? What error messages do you get?